Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Mar 26, 2024, 01:15:44 PMQuote from: Predatorium on Mar 26, 2024, 11:03:33 AMAs long as the characters are clever and don't do stupid shit like taking off their helmets on a foreign planet
Or sticking their heads in eggs when everything that happened to them before tells them they shouldn't.
On paper, it makes sense. None of the characters have actually seen an egg that has a rape-spider inside. It just looks like an interesting life form, and doesn't initially seem to be aggressive either. I don't think they should actually do it in movies any more though. The audience knows way too much about the Aliens for it to be believable.
That's probably why the Hammerpede in Prometheus didn't work as well. That thing...from the get go
looks like it's going to murder to you, and seems to be acting aggressive. Biologist or not, there's no way anyone would actually want to touch that thing, let alone get near it. Milburn at no point takes a hit of Fifield's bong either, and weed tends to do the opposite thing when it kicks in.
The scene later on makes it worse, actually: when they examine his body, non-biologist characters jump back in shock and terror when the thing leaps out of his mouth. It retroactively makes Milburn more stupid.